Her specialties include a vegan macaroni and cheese that is creamy and flavorful and nachos covered in vegan chili. Her challenge now is making her dishes more accessible.

Im working on ways to prepackage some of the foods, she said.

Asali plans to add meal prep and manufacturing to her business by 2018. Her mission is to create an affordable, accessible and functional plant-based product for people regardless of income. And that takes funding.

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Nicole Asal shows her vegan recipes from her book The Millennials Guide to Plant-Based Diets, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017.

Money matters

Asali hopes to raise $15,000 via her Indiegogo campaign, which will fund the cookbooks publication and help her begin manufacturing specialty foods that will make vegan comfort dishes easier to create for the community.